1/1 Front Gates
What the Battalion Front Gate looked like depended on when you were there. We are gradually building a pictorial history of the travels of 1/1 from 1965-1971.
Map of 1/1's AO end of '68 thru '70 before moving to Hill 10. Thanks to Lee Hodge for marking the places and Ernie Brown and Joe Fulginiti for helping pin down the coordinates.
The 7th Marines site has excellent maps at http://www.marzone.com, including instructions on how to obtain maps from the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey [USGS]. Thanks to Victor Vilionis, 7th Marines webmaster, for the great work.
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Battalion Area at Da Nang, Marble Mountain,
1965 -photo from Richard Medved |
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Camp Saxon was the location for Alpha
when we first got over there. It was named for PFC Frank Saxon, who I
believe was the battalion’s first (and youngest) KIA. I was on the
patrol where he was killed by a grenade fragment in the heart. Later
alpha moved to Hill 22.
-photo from Richard Medved
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1966 1stBn Front Gate guard post. Dien Ban River as it
looked after a heavy monsoon rain. -photo from Jim Sowell |
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June 1966 Convoy of over 100 trucks preparing to move
out from DaNang (Marble Mountain) to Hoi An area. |
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Aerial View of 1st Bn CP at Hoi An early 1967 |
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Aerial View of 1st Bn CP at Hoi An from
village side early 1967 -photo from Jim Sowell (Big file 112K, worth it) |
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Hoi An between 06/05/67-08/27/67 |
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1/1 Bn HQ at Con Thien -photo from Mike Enochs |
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Battalion Front Gate -Aug, 1968 - photo from Joe Fulginiti |
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This is Phoung Loc 2 the battalion area south of Danang in Sep 68, as it looked in 1995. - photo from Joe Fulginiti |
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Gateway to Dodge 1969 Technically,
not a front gate picture, but for me, this was home. This sign was just off the Bn LZ
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In the background to the right is the S-1 hooch. The S-2 hooch on the other side
of the S-1 hooch. If you bear to the left from this sign, walk about 20 meters
across open area to the S-1. |
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Main Gate on Hill 10, 1970 - photo from George Porter |
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View From Hill 37 after typhoon, November, 1970 - photo from George Porter |
